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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => The Modding Workshop => Topic started by: mr.WHO on January 09, 2009, 03:48:14 pm

Title: How to add a Species color into a FRED_open
Post by: mr.WHO on January 09, 2009, 03:48:14 pm

I wanna create a copy of terran and shivan entries but with diffrend colours, I tried to find a .tbl file for specied modification but I only found a Tech room entry file for species.
Anyone know how to help me?

What number combinations (0,0,0) is for orange and violet?

Title: Re: How to add a Species color into a FRED_open
Post by: FUBAR-BDHR on January 09, 2009, 03:53:17 pm

If your talking FRED then look here:  http://www.hard-light.net/wiki/index.php/Species_defs.tbl

If your talking in game like the hostile friendly unknown then look here:  http://www.hard-light.net/wiki/index.php/Iff_defs.tbl

Title: Re: How to add a Species color into a FRED_open
Post by: Wanderer on January 09, 2009, 04:24:20 pm

Just treat the colors like you would treat HTML colors... IE.. red, green, blue...

Examples of (http://www.pagetutor.com/common/bgcolors1536.png) color charts (http://geneticvital.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/html_colors.gif)

Just pic a color, convert it from hexadecimal to decimal number one color at a time.. say FF00FF -> FF, 00, FF -> 255, 0, 255 and done

Title: Re: How to add a Species color into a FRED_open
Post by: phreak on January 11, 2009, 08:29:54 am

Quote from: Wanderer on January 09, 2009, 04:24:20 pm

Just treat the colors like you would treat HTML colors... IE.. red, green, blue...

Examples of (http://www.pagetutor.com/common/bgcolors1536.png) color charts (http://geneticvital.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/html_colors.gif)

Just pic a color, convert it from hexadecimal to decimal number one color at a time.. say FF00FF -> FF, 00, FF -> 255, 0, 255 and done

Wouldn't it be easier to just open up paint and go into the color chooser?

Title: Re: How to add a Species color into a FRED_open
Post by: LeGuille on January 11, 2009, 08:45:12 am

Paint does not display HEX values (unless Vista does it).

Title: Re: How to add a Species color into a FRED_open
Post by: phreak on January 11, 2009, 08:51:44 am

Both the table files take decimal colors, so I don't see the point of using the hex values.

Title: Re: How to add a Species color into a FRED_open
Post by: Wanderer on January 14, 2009, 01:18:49 am

Quote from: phreak on January 11, 2009, 08:29:54 am

Wouldn't it be easier to just open up paint and go into the color chooser?

Probably.. but last time i suggested that it was apparently too difficult procedure.